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Irrfan Khan was an Indian film actor, known for his work predominantly in Hindi cinema, as well as his works in British films and Hollywood. Film critics, contemporaries and other experts consider him to be one of the finest actors in Indian cinema for his versatile and natural acting.
Irrfan Khan (7 January 1967– 29 April 2020) was an Indian actor who worked in Indian and British-American films. [1] His on-screen debut was a minor role in Mira Nair 's Salaam Bombay! in 1988. [2] He followed this with appearances in a variety of television shows in the late 1980s to 1990s including playing ʽAbd al-Qadir Badayuni in Bharat ...
YearTitleRole(s)Language(s)2021Shekhar SharmaHindi2020Champak BansalHindi2018ShaukatHindi2018Dev KaushalHindiGlobally, Khan was in The Warrior (2001), The Namesake (2006), The Darjeeling Limited (2007), the Academy Award-winning film Slumdog Millionaire (2008), New York, I Love You (2009), The Amazing Spider-Man (2012), Life of Pi (2012), Jurassic World (2015) and Inferno (2016).
- January 1, 1
- Jaipur, Rajasthan, India
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- Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- 12 Haider
- 11 The Namesake
- 10 The Warrior
- 9 Rog
- 8 Hindi Medium
- 7 D-Day
- 6 Maqbool
- 5 Slumdog Millionaire
- 4 No Bed of Roses
- 3 Haasil
If there were awards for coolest entrance into a film, Khan’s initial moments as the mysterious Roohdar would be a definite contender. Wearing sunglasses, he emerges from a blurry scene of snow and tosses a scarf over his shoulder with a Cary Grant-like insouciance. The part he plays in this adaptation of Hamletis highly enigmatic; based on the cha...
Jumpa Lahiri’s best-selling novel was exquisitely directedby Mira Nair, and Khan is a standout as Ashoke, Kal Penn’s literature-loving immigrant father, who named him Gogol after the writer. Father and son suffer from an ever-widening cultural divide, a rift they never truly get a chance to heal, although the illuminating scene when Ashoke divulges...
Khan was on the verge of giving up acting as a career when he fortuitously landed the lead role in Asif Kapadia’s Hindi-language film, The Warrior. Khan plays Lafcadia, a warrior who is hunted through several varieties of unforgiving climate by the warlord he previously served as a ruthless killer. Lafcadia must reckon with his former life of viole...
It’s not every actor who could pull off the role of a man in love with a dead woman he never met while she was alive, but not every actor is Irrfan Khan, and he of course, pulls off the role with aplomb. Khan is Inspector Uday Singh Rathod, a straitlaced, respected cop who’s been having some trouble sleeping in this romance thriller. He quickly bec...
Raj Batra (Khan) and his wife live in Delhi with their five-year-old daughter, hoping to get her into an English-based, or English-medium, school. They move into the requisite ritzy area where they don’t feel much at home, but their daughter loses out on a place because Raj and his wife don’t know much English. Raj learns of a friend whose child go...
There’s just something about Khan in an action thriller, and his portrayal here of RAW (Research and Analysis Wing of Indian intelligence) agent Wali Khan is no exception. For almost a decade, Khan has been hunting an underworld boss who keeps a low profile as a barber. When a situation arises that may make an arrest possible, Khan and a crack team...
Maqbool is the first film in director Vishal Bhardwaj’s Shakespeare trilogy, followed by Omkara and Haider (see above), and based on Macbeth, Othello, and Hamlet, respectively. As Maqbool, Khan works for a Mumbai gangster, Abba Ji, instead of a Scottish king, and to make matters more complicated, he’s also in a clandestine relationship with his bos...
Danny Boyle’s Slumdog Millionaire was a bona fide international hit, and Khan has a memorable role as the nameless police inspector trying to figure out if Dev Patel’s Jamal has cheated on a game show or not, inevitably deciding that he couldn’t have and letting him go back to finish the episode. The transparency of Khan’s acting is so finely honed...
This Bangladeshi-Indian drama, also known by its Bangladeshi title Doob, marked Khan’s 10th international film, and he also acted as co-producer. It’s a sensitive drama about a close-knit family thrown into chaos when news of the filmmaker's father’s (Khan) marital indiscretion hits headlines. It’s not a simple story where fights are had, forgivene...
Since its release in 2003, this crime drama has clawed its way to cult status. Khan made a name for himself as the go-to villain, winning a Filmfare Award for Best Actor in a Negative Role, playing a student at the University of Allahabad named Ranvijay Singh. The political situation on campus begins to get violent, and the situation takes an even ...
- Molly Pohlig
In 2015, he played the lead role in the film Piku alongside Deepika Padukone and Amitabh Bachchan. Khan co-starred in the 2015 film Jurassic World. In the same year, he also appeared in the acclaimed thriller Talvar in which his performance was praised.
20 Best Irrfan Khan Movies: The Profound Legacy of An Indian Cinema Icon. Matt Crawford 0. Irrfan Khan was a talented Indian actor who made a mark in both Indian and international cinema. He was known for his versatile acting skills and his ability to bring complex characters to life on screen.
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An important figure in Indian film and television since the early 1990s, actor Irrfan Khan brought complexity and depth to lead and supporting roles in Bollywood films like "The Warrior"...
